Watch the 2025 finalists perform in Cedille’s 2025 Emerging Artist Competition

Watch Cedille's 2025 Emerging Competition

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Cedille Records is committed to supporting Chicago’s finest classical musicians.

Cedille is a not-for-profit record label dedicated to classical music and the artists who create it. We enhance the world’s catalog with lush, award-winning recordings featuring Chicago’s top performers and composers.


Black Oak Ensemble

Dance of the Night Sky

Third Coast Percussion

Standard Stoppages

Cavatina Duo

River of Fire

We work with classical music’s most accomplished and intriguing performers and composers

Music drives all of Cedille’s recording projects. Listen to our artists and explore their backgrounds and discographies.


Shawn E. Okpebholo

Songs in Flight


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New and Noteworthy

From orchestras to composers to individual soloists and vocal ensembles, visit our extensive classical music catalog.


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Dance of the Night Sky, Black Oak Ensemble‘s third album for Cedille, expands the boundaries of string trio repertoire by offering listeners a vibrant collection of contemporary works including four world-premiere recordings, all by British women composers.

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Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion (TCP), praised by NPR for championing “borderless music” and “blurring musical boundaries,” celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 with Standard Stoppages, an album that explores how time can be stretched, manipulated, played with, and reimagined.

 

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The Cavatina Duo — renowned Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagić and Spanish flutist Eugenia Moliner — collaborates with the Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet on River of Fire, an album featuring world-premiere recordings of five original compositions that bridge classical traditions and Gypsy influences.

Watch the Emerging Artist Competition Finals

Enjoy performances from the 2025 Emerging Artist Competition finalists, plus a performance from 2021’s winner Julian Velasco! Our second competition, sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation, included a diverse class of incredibly accomplished, early-career musicians with deep ties to Chicago.


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Behind the Scenes

Go into the recording booth with sound engineer Bill Maylone!

Album of the Week

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Monthly Playlist

For the month in which summer begins, a playlist of pieces about the season and the things we associate with it: sun, heat, birds, bees, butterflies, flowers, other greenery, fireworks, the seashore, etc.